| Winter 2005-06 Special Exhibitions | |
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A Compilation of Significant Shows by Stan Parchin, Senior Correspondent for Museums and Special Exhibitions |
Amon Carter Museum
Fort Worth, Texas
In the American West: Richard Avedon, Photographs 1979-1984September 17, 2005-January 8, 2006
The Amon Carter Museum commissioned photographer Richard Avedon (1923–2004) to create a portrait of the American West in 1979. The resulting 1985 exhibition, In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon, was widely regarded as a definitive expression of the power of photographic art. On the twentieth anniversary of his historic venture, the Amon Carter Museum presents a special exhibition of 78 of Avedon's 124 original photographs.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
Catherine the Great: Arts for the Empire - Masterpieces from The State Hermitage Museum, RussiaOctober 1, 2005-January 1, 2006
The State Hermitage Museum, Russia lent more than 200 of its priceless paintings, jewelry pieces, gems, examples of furniture, architectural models and more to this display of artworks commissioned and collected by Empress Catherine the Great (1729-1796). Much like Cardinal Richelieu in seventeenth-century France, the Empress understood the power of art as a tool for her political aspirations. Acquiring objets d'art from the past and employing some of the best artists of the Eighteenth Century, Catherine placed St. Petersburg on both the political and cultural maps of Western Europe during the age of the Enlightenment. The show's highlight is the ornate Romanov Coronation Coach. Many of the splendid works in this ticketed show have never been seen on this side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Girodet: Romantic RebelFebruary 11-April 30, 2006
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767-1824) was the rebellious student of Neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David. More than 100 paintings and works on paper devoted to portraiture, mythology and Napoleon's military accomplishments demonstrate Girodet's artistic style and how his art was influenced by the French Revolution and its aftermath.
Columbus Museum of Art
Columbus, Ohio
Renoir's WomenSeptember 23, 2005-January 1, 2006
25 dazzling masterpieces by French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) explore his fascination with women through his depictions of motherhood, children, everyday life and the nude.
Age of Armor from the Higgins Armory Museum
October 23, 2005 -January 1, 2006
Age of Armor... illustrates the role of armor as an art form in Western civilization through 50 superb pieces dating from ancient Greece through the Renaissance.
The British Museum, London
Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient PersiaSeptember 8, 2005-January 8, 2006
This major exhibition explores the artistic creativity of Persia, one of the ancient world's greatest empires, offering a unique opportunity to see treasures from the National Museum of Tehran, the Persepolis Museum and the Musée du Louvre. Magnificent tributes worldwide flowed into Persepolis, an architectural wonder and the royal treasury of the Achaemenid dynasty, whose greatest king was Darius I (550?-486 B.C.). The objects gathered there attest to the extraordinary developments in Middle Eastern art and culture that Persia’s flourishing trade encouraged, reflected in the British Museum's Oxus Treasure.
Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, Texas
Dialogues: Duchamp, Cornell, Johns, RauschenbergSeptember 4, 2005-January 8, 2006
Examines the artistic dialogue and interactions of four major twentieth-century artists, exploring important themes common to their works.
Dayton Art Institute
Dayton, Ohio
The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient EgyptSeptember 1, 2005-January 3, 2006
The ancient Egyptian idea of the afterlife is dramatically explored through 143 magnificent objects, all from Egypt and many neither displayed publicly before nor been seen outside of their homeland. The show includes a life-sized reproduction of the burial chamber of the New Kingdom pharaoh Thutmose III (ca. 1479–1458 B.C.). The artworks exhibited, the largest selection of antiquities ever to be loaned by Egypt to North America, range in date from the New Kingdom (1550-1069 B.C.) through the Late Period (664-332 B.C.). They include luxurious objects that furnished tombs, jewelry, painted reliefs, religious implements, a sarcophagus richly painted with scenes of the afterlife and a model of the royal barge that symbolically carried the pharaohs along the Nile River and into the afterlife. Travels next to the Public Museum of Grand Rapids, Michigan from January 28 to May 7, 2006.
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum
San Francisco, California
Hatshepsut: From Queen to PharaohOctober 15, 2005-February 5, 2006
As the inaugural special exhibition at the new M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, this show examines Hatshepsut, the great female pharaoh of Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty, who ruled for two decades—first as regent for and then as co-ruler with her nephew Thutmose III. During her reign, trade relations with other lands were expanded extensively. Innovations in sculpture (Hatshepsut assumed the regalia of a pharaoh in art), architecture (most notably in the queen's remarkable mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri) and the decorative arts reflect the prosperity of her time. After Hatshepsut’s death, her name and image were ruthlessly obliterated by her nephew in a vain iconoclastic attempt to erase her memory. This unprecedented exhibition assembles: royal statues and reliefs; monumental sculpture representing members of the royal court; and ceremonial objects, finely crafted furniture, dazzling jewelry and personal items that tell the compelling story of Hatshepsut’s enigmatic reign and reveal the exquisite artistic production during it. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's extensive holdings of objects related to Hatshepsut, excavated by its Egyptian Expedition in the 1920s and 1930s, comprise a significant portion of the show. They will be supplemented by loans from other American and foreign museums.
The Field Museum
Chicago, Illinois
Pompeii: Stories from an EruptionOctober 22, 2005-March 26, 2006
The first special exhibition on this subject in the United States since 1978, the show explores the vibrant art and civilization of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Oplontis at the time of Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 A.D. The volcano's lava preserved precious frescoes and mosaics, marble and bronze sculptures, gold objects, exquisite jewelry and everyday household items, many recently discovered. The exhibition includes casts of some of the inhabitants killed during the disaster.
The Frick Collection
New York, New York
Memling's PortraitsOctober 12-December 31, 2005
The only American and last stop of this touring special exhibition of paintings by the Netherlandish artist Hans Memling (ca. 1440-1494), Memling's Portraits examines his successful career with more than 20 portraits by the master and his school, including portrait-wings from diptychs and triptychs, along with autonomous panels depicting individual patrons. The exhibition accurately describes the career of a Northern Renaissance master while defining the function of portraiture in the fifteenth-century Netherlands.
Goya's Last Works
February 22-May 14, 2006
This special exhibition focuses on the final phase (1824-1828) of the career of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) through approximately 50 innovative oil portraits, drawings, lithographs and experimental miniature paintings on ivory. All of the works displayed were created during Goya's last years in Bordeaux, when he was already aged and profoundly deaf.
J. Paul Getty Museum
Malibu, California
Painted Prayers: Books of Hours from the Morgan LibraryOctober 18, 2005-January 8, 2006
This spectacular special exhibition previously at the Morgan Library in New York displays 58 of its greatest devotional texts and printed books produced in Belgium, England, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain during the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Masterpieces such as The Hours of Catherine of Cleves, The Hours of Henry VIII and The Farnese Hours are on view.
A Masterpiece Reconstructed: The Hours of Louis XII
October 18, 2005-January 8, 2006
The manuscript called The Hours of Louis XII was painted by Jean Bourdichon (1457–1521) for King Louis XII of France in 1498/99, probably in honor of his coronation. It was dismembered by the end of the Seventeenth Century. 15 of the lost miniatures and parts of the text have been discovered within the past few decades. This exhibition reunites them for the first time in more than 300 years.
Drawings from Leonardo to Titian: A North Italian Itinerary
December 6, 2005–February 26, 2006
Examples of Italian Renaissance drawing will be displayed in the form of an itinerary across northern Italy in the Sixteenth Century, exploring works produced in the artistic centers of Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna and the Veneto. The exhibition describes the different styles of drawing and how the artists influenced one another.
Guggenheim Heritage Museum
Las Vegas, Nevada
Russia! The Majesty of the Tsars:Treasures from the Kremlin Museum
September 1, 2005-January 15, 2006
Displays splendid examples of the fine, decorative and applied arts from the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Russian rulers' resplendent collections. The show explores royal family life, war and the hunt, religion and the importance of official court ceremonies.
High Museum of Art
Atlanta, Georgia
Andrew Wyeth: Memory & MagicNovember 12, 2005-February 26, 2006
This ticketed 100-piece retrospective of the eight-decade career of American Realist Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917) includes tempera paintings, watercolors and drawings. Arranged chronologically and thematically, the show explores recurrent themes in Wyeth's work, such as domestic interiors, landscapes, family, friends and still-life subjects.
Herbert F. Johnson Museum
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
Albrecht Dürer: The Master PrintsOctober 6-December 11, 2005
This special exhibition celebrates Cornell University's quest for a print of Northern Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer's 1513 engraving of Knight, Death and the Devil to accompany the Johnson Museum's St. Jerome in His Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), all three recognized as the artist's greatest graphic accomplishments. These master prints are displayed alongside other contemporary engravings and woodcuts from the museum's permanent collection. The prints' sensitivity to light makes this a rare opportunity to view Dürer's three works together.
Kimbell Art Museum
Fort Worth, Texas
Gauguin and ImpressionismDecember 18, 2005-March 26, 2006
The Kimbell Art Museum is the last and sole American venue for this first-ever international loan exhibition that focuses on the brilliant, early Impressionist career (1875-1887) of French artist Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). The show will include more than 50 paintings as well as 15 sculptures and works in ceramic.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, California
Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya KingshipSeptember 10, 2005-January 2, 2006
150 objects, many never before exhibited here, explore the role of divine kingship in Maya society in a complex urban setting over 2000 years ago. The national museums of Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico have lent objects for this landmark special exhibition. Through examples of monumental art and royal portraiture, Lords of Creation... illustrates artistic innovations as they relate to the Maya king and his culture's cosmos as well as indigenous symbols of prestige and authority. Travels next to the Dallas Museum of Art from February 12 to May 7, 2006.
Pioneering Modern Painting:
Cézanne and Pissarro, 1865-1885
October 20, 2005-January 16, 2006
Some 80 paintings (approximately 40 by each artist) and 10 drawings focus on the years 1865–1885 when Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro worked closely with each other, often painting literally side-by-side. Their artistic interaction helped lay the foundation for Modernism in art.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, New York
The Art of Medicine in Ancient EgyptSeptember 12, 2005-January 15, 2006
The causes of illnesses, their prevention and cures were little understood by most Egyptians—concerns that influenced much of ancient Egyptian art, yet have very rarely been studied. This show displays objects from The Met's collection that address this subject, allowing visitors to appreciate them in novel ways. Included is the rarely seen 15-foot Edwin Smith Papyrus, on loan from the New York Academy of Medicine, that describes the treatment of wounds and other ailments both practically and magically.
Prague: The Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437
September 20, 2005-January 3, 2005
This highly anticipated Fall exhibition explores the remarkable flowering of art in Prague in the Late Middle Ages during the reigns of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, crowned king of Bohemia in 1347, and his two sons, Wenceslas IV and Sigismund, through some 200 stunning artworks that include panel paintings, goldsmiths' work, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, silk embroideries and stained glass. Shown exclusively in this country at The Met, the show draws on numerous collections in the Czech Republic as well as from European and American sources.
The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult
September 26-December 31, 2005
Contradictory to its ability to record the material world with truth and accuracy, advocates of spiritism at the end of the Nineteenth Century used photography to provide manifest proof of the immaterial: auras; thoughts, hallucinations and dreams; or the spirits of the deceased. Closer to the scientific revelations of the X-ray (discovered in 1896) than to the double-exposure parlor tricks of 1850s ghost photographs, the more than 60 stunning and surprising works in this exhibition reflect an attempt to reconcile the physical and spiritual worlds.
Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings
October 12-December 31, 2005
Vincent van Gogh's decade-long achievement as a draftsman (1880–1890) is traced in the first major American retrospective devoted to his drawings. This large-scale special exhibition features approximately 110 of the artist's finest works in pen and ink, graphite, chalk, charcoal and watercolor, along with a group of related paintings.
Fra Angelico
October 25, 2005-January 29, 2006
The first major exhibition in this country of Italian Early Renaissance master Fra Angelico’s work brings together approximately 70 paintings, drawings and manuscript illuminations, covering all periods of the Angelic Painter's career from ca. 1415 to 1455. Included are several new attributions and paintings never before exhibited publicly, as well as reconstructions of larger works, their pieces reunited for the first time since their creation. An additional 40 works by Angelico's assistants and closest followers illustrate the spread and continuity of his artistic influence well into the second half of the Fifteenth Century.
Clouet to Seurat:
French Drawings from The British Museum
November 8, 2005-January 29, 2006
Nearly 100 highlights representing four centuries of French master drawings from The British Museum comprise this show, many of which are rarely exhibited because of their sensitivity to light. Reflecting the courtly world of sixteenth-century France to nineteenth-century café society, masterpieces from the French Renaissance to Postimpressionism include works by Jean Clouet, Claude Lorrain, Antoine Watteau, Edgar Degas and Georges Seurat, all exceptional in their artistic achievement.
Antonello da Messina:
Sicily’s Renaissance Master
December 13, 2005-February 28, 2006
A room in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's second-floor European Paintings Galleries will play host to three magnificent paintings by the Italian Renaissance master Antonello da Messina (ca. 1430–1479). Trained in Naples, he traveled to Venice in 1475, where his art profoundly influenced Giovanni Bellini (1432?-1516) and other painters. Antonello's famous Virgin of the Annunciation is among the three works on loan to The Met from Italy, supplemented by several other pieces.
Robert Rauschenberg: Combines
December 20, 2005-April 2, 2006
65 mixed-media works by American artist Robert Rauschenberg (b. 1925), his highly imaginative Combines will trace how he reinvented the idea of collage between 1954 and 1964 by drawing on the inspiration of everyday objects and the history of art.
Milwaukee Art Museum
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Rembrandt and His Time:Masterworks from the Albertina, Vienna
October 8, 2005-January 8, 2006
This special exhibition of 112 drawings and prints from the Albertina Museum in Vienna, Austria, along with a number of related paintings, explores some of the greatest artworks produced by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) and his Netherlandish contemporaries. 27 drawings and prints by Rembrandt, the largest number of his works ever lent by the Albertina to another museum, are the show's focal point.
Musée national d'art Moderne Centre Pompidou, Paris
DadaOctober 5, 2005-January 9, 2006
This comprehensive survey traces the development of the Dada movement in modern art as it emerged in six international cities during and after World War I. The show features tradition-challenging examples of painting, sculpture, film and collage created by Dadaists such as Kurt Schwitters, Max Ernst, Francis Picabia, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp as well as other artists less well-known. Travels next to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC from February 19 to May 14, 2006.
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the PharaohsDecember 15, 2005-April 23, 2006
This ticketed special exhibition features many objects from the boy-king Tutankhamun's tomb (some of which were here previously, minus his iconic Gold Mask) and another 80 (mostly funerary) artworks from his predecessors' reigns. They include splendid tomb furnishings of the lady Tjuya, including her gilded coffin. This time around, Tutankhamun is placed historically within the monotheistic maelstrom of his father, Akhenaten, by the presence of artworks that document his religious revolution. Objects specific to Tutankhamun's burial include his delicate royal diadem, discovered encircling the head of the king's mummified body that he possibly wore while still alive, and one of the miniature canopic coffins that contained some of his internal organs. The show climaxes with the recent forensic reconstruction of what Tutankhamun was supposed to have looked like.
Museum of Arts and Sciences
Daytona Beach, Florida
Glories of Ancient EgyptNovember 18, 2005-May 7, 2006
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston graciously lent more than 200 ancient Egyptian artworks and artifacts from its world-renowned collection for this museum's fiftieth anniversary. Relief sculpture, sarcophagi and mummies comprise the exhibition. The show covers every period of ancient Egyptian art from 4000 B.C. to 50 A.D., except for the Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period.
The Museum of Modern Art
New York, New York
Beyond the Visible:The Art of Odilon Redon
October 30, 2005-January 23, 2006
The drawings, illustrated books, paintings, pastels, prints and watercolors of French Symbolist artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916) form this retrospective. MoMA's Redon holdings were greatly augmented in 2000 by a substantial donation of more than 100 of his works from the Ian Woodner Family Collection. Beyond the Visible... covers the entire range of the artist's creative output, including Redon's collaborations with literary figures of his day.
Edvard Munch, The Modern Life of the Soul
February 19-May 8, 2006
This first major American exhibition devoted to Norwegian Symbolist and Expressionist artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) in almost 30 years will feature more than 90 of his fascinating paintings and 40 works on paper.
National Gallery, London
Rubens: A Master in the MakingOctober 26, 2005-January 15, 2006
The exhibition describes Rubens' dramatic rise from pupil of a minor Antwerp artist to dominant international painter of his time. The most thorough explanation of the flowering of his artistic genius ever attempted, the show traces his hesitant beginnings in Antwerp (1598-1600) to his eight-year study trip to Italy (1600-1608), where he embraced the achievements of the Renaissance greats Michelangelo and Raphael and the revolutionary style of Caravaggio. A dazzling group of Genoese portraits from 1606 marks Rubens' irresistible bravura with the brush. These offer an exciting and indeed rare opportunity to focus on works that are by his hand alone, undiluted by any workshop assistance. The exhibition culminates in a group of heroic images Rubens created from his extensive collection of sources on returning to Antwerp (1609-1614). These include Samson and Delilah and The Massacre of the Innocents, works that were last seen together in Rubens' studio.
National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
Pieter Claesz: Master of Haarlem LifeSeptember 18-December 31, 2005
Pieter Claesz, who lived and worked in Haarlem between 1621 and 1660, was one of the most important Dutch still-life painters of the Seventeenth Century. Claesz pioneered the development of monochrome tabletop still-lifes (the so-called banketjes), quietly restrained and extraordinarily naturalistic works. Claesz captured the effects of light and the different textures of objects through his varied handling of paint. The exhibition showcases 25 of Claesz's still-lifes from all phases of his career.
Monumental Sculpture in Florence:
Ghiberti, Nanni di Banco and Verrocchio at Orsanmichele
September 18-December 31, 2005
Three monumental masterpieces of Italian Renaissance sculptors Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378-1455), Nanni di Banco (ca. 1380/1385-1421) and Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488) are on view at the National Gallery of Art to celebrate the completion of their restoration. It is the first time that major works by Ghiberti and Nanni di Banco have traveled to the United States. Ghiberti's St. Matthew (1419-1421), Nanni di Banco's Quattro Santi Coronati (Four Martyred Saints) (ca. 1409-1416) and Verrocchio's Christ and St. Thomas (1466-1483) were originally created for the exterior of Orsanmichele in Florence. They represent the highest achievement of fifteenth-century Florentine sculpture. Orsanmichele, one of the most important Renaissance structures, was both a a church and a grain storage and market facility. The Florentine trade guilds chose it as the site for statues of their patron saints. Since 1982 the statues have been undergoing much-needed restoration, and the building has been closed to the public. Once the statues return to Florence, Orsanmichele will reopen, making it highly unlikely that its sculptures will ever travel again.
Manuscripts in Miniature: Italian Manuscript
Illumination from the J. Paul Getty Museum
September 25, 2005-January 2, 2006
Explores the development and rich artistic variety of manuscript illumination in Italy during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This version of a special exhibition from the J. Paul Getty Museum is supplemented by works from the National Gallery of Art.
Cézanne in Provence
January 29-May 7, 2006
More than 100 oil paintings and watercolors by French Impressionist and Postimpressionist painter Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) will comprise this special exhibition of works by the father of modern art. Borrowed from public and private collections in the United States and Europe, the works on loan demonstrate Cézanne's intense relationship with his native Aix-en-Provence. They include landscapes of Mont Sainte-Victoire and L'Estaque, family portraits and his series of Bathers from London's National Gallery.
Neue Galerie
New York, New York
Egon SchieleOctober 21, 2005-February 20, 2006
The gallery is devoted entirely to more than 150 paintings and drawings by Viennese Expressionist Egon Schiele (1890-1918).
New York Public Library
New York, New York
Splendor of the Word: Medieval and RenaisssanceIlluminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library
October 12, 2005-February 12, 2006
The main branch of the New York Public Library in midtown Manhattan displays 100 of its precious medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts.
Onassis Cultural Center
New York, New York
From Byzantium to Modern Greece:Hellenic Art in Adversity, 1453-1830
December 15, 2005-May 6, 2006
More than 137 spectacular works from Athens' Benaki Museum, including icons, paintings, metalwork, costumes, jewelry and pottery, describe Hellenic culture from the fall of Byzantium in 1453 through the founding of the modern Greek state in 1830.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jacob van Ruisdael: Dutch Master of LandscapeOctober 23, 2005-February 5, 2006
Often regarded as the most important landscape painter of the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age, Jacob van Ruisdael (1628?-1682) is the subject of this exhibition. The show includes some 45 paintings, 30 drawings and all 13 of Ruisdael’s rare etchings. It covers his densely wooded scenes, conceived and executed early in his career, to the more spacious and diverse compositions of his later years. Ruisdael painted the seashore and forests around Haarlem, but also the more rigorous topography of Germany and Scandinavia, places he studied from other artists’ works. His breathtaking landscapes were especially sought by collectors in seventeenth-century Holland.
Portland Art Museum
Portland, Oregon
Hesse: A Princely German CollectionOctober 29, 2005-March 19, 2006
More than 400 artworks in all types of media celebrate the princely patronage of the German House of Hesse. This ticketed special exhibition features masterpieces of painting from the Northern Renaissance through German Romanticism. The show includes examples of Hesse family jewelry, Baroque silver, drinking vessels, porcelain and furniture.
The Saint Louis Art Museum
St. Louis, Missouri
Treasures From the Royal Tombs of UrOctober 21, 2005-January 15, 2006
This special exhibition explores the spectacular art and material culture of ancient Sumer in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) through more than 200 objects from Ur. Featured in the show are: the recently reconstructed Ram in the Thicket (actually a goat); the musical Great Lyre; and the ornate headdress, jewelry and precious accessories from the tomb of Lady Puabi, dating back to the Third Millennium B.C.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, California
Chuck Close: Self-Portraits, 1967-2005November 19, 2005-February 28, 2006
Explores the career of American artist Chuck Close (b. 1940) from his first, large-scale Photorealist self-portrait to works from the present day.
Teylers Museum
Haarlem, The Netherlands
MichelangeloThrough January 8, 2006
90 drawings by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) meld seamlessly with works on paper from The British Museum, London and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Included are several studies for the Sistine Chapel ceiling and his monumental Last Judgment fresco.
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Diane Arbus RevelationsOctober 13, 2005-January 15, 2006
Describes the dynamic artistry of award-winning American photographer Diane Arbus (1923-1971) through her images of middle-class families, carnival performers, everyday people, celebrities and transvestites. The show sheds light on the inner workings of Arbus' creative genius through the inclusion of her contact sheets, notebooks and other belongings.
Wadsworth Atheneum
Hartford, Connecticut
Dalí, Picasso and the Surrealist VisionOctober 8, 2005-January 1, 2006
The Atheneum’s world-renowned collection of Surrealist and Modern art returns home after nearly two years of an American tour. Featured in Dalí, Picasso and the Surrealist Vision will not only be such longtime favorites as Dalí’s Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach, de Chirico’s Endless Voyage, Magritte’s The Tempest, and Max Ernst's Europe After the Rain, but also drawings by Miró and Tanguy not usually on view, and works by American artists who dabbled in the Surreal, such as Alexander Calder and Joseph Cornell. Accompanying these treasures from the Atheneum will be loans from regional collections not often seen in Hartford.
Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota
ANDY WARHOL/SUPERNOVA: Stars, Deaths,and Disasters, 1962-1964
November 13, 2005-February 26, 2006
26 of Andy Warhol's first silkscreen paintings examine America's obsession with celebrity and tragedy, from portraits of Marilyn Monroe and the widowed Jacqueline Kennedy to depictions of car wrecks and electric chairs.
Yale Center for British Art
New Haven, Connecticut
Sensation and Sensibility:Viewing Gainsborough's "Cottage Door"
October 6-December 31, 2005
This show focuses on The Cottage Door (1780) by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788). It assembles for the first time a group of paintings, prints and drawings related to Gainsborough's larger theme of the cottage and cottage life, borrowed partly from Dutch art of the Golden Age.